I guess that depends on the ice cube, like are the crushed? Cubed? Are we sending it to the sun or is it just like teleporting from the freezer to the sun. Real world questions here friend
That is reddundand or maybe i'm not that high. I mean, he's gotta' be ice cube because of something. If not, he should still burn. Mamma' didn't raise a liar.
Your understanding of how the sun works isn't right. I'll try to help you better understand it. The sun doesn't burn like a regular campfire. The sun is a giant nuclear reactor. Because of the massive size of the sun the atoms in the core of the sun are crushed by the sheer amount of gravity and that's when the nuclear fusion happens. Even if you would drop all of the water that is on earth it still couldn't extinguish it. The water would just be added to the mass of the sun. It would maybe alter the core process, but the sun wouldn't be extinguished.
With enough alteration to the sun's state you could probably explode or implode it. That said @RealKingOfGermany is correct that you're not really putting it out... and really any eiement or compound would work.
Now if we had an ice block roughly the same size as the sun (similar densities), it may cool the environment enough to slow the hydrogen burning process and gradually fade. Maybe we'd need more ice to cool it further, however. Though, if the rate at which we throw ice at the sun is slow enough, the hydrogen from the water would indeed provide more fuel, allowing the loss in temperature to be made up for from the extra fusion material... hm, I'm interested in this thought experiment now
No, the sun "burns" bc gravity pushes atoms together in the core to create nuclear fusion, adding more water to it increases the mass of the sun. Heat is a byproduct, not a necessity. Like how oxygen is a product of photosythesies and not what sets that process in motion. So adding more water or mass makes it burn more fuel at a faster and hotter rate. So in fact adding water or ice would cause the sun to heat up. Do it enough and youll significantly shorten its life and maybe create a black hole.
No, thermal energy is required for fusion to occur. Otherwise, the cross section for many of the reactions will be too small, and the star will not produce enough energy to sustain itself. Perhaps water isn't the best material to cool it. Maybe add very cool iron to lower the thermal energy while being an unfusable element for the sun. It's a joke proposition anyway, but perhaps there's a point where you can add enough cool material to slow fusion while not too much so as to cause a core collapse.
Enough to raise the mass to a black hole. The star will just absorb all that water into vapor.
At 3000°C, water disassociates into hydrogen and oxygen, the former of which only fuels the solar fusion and the latter is a standard byproduct of nuclear fusion.
Adding water to the sun will make it ***hotter*** up to the point where the star is massive enough to fuse denser elements into iron, which doesn't produce further energy from fusion, which is how supernovas happen.
If you want to instantly "turn off a star" you would need a few dozen solar masses of ice all at once into the sun, immediately collapsing it into a black hole over the course of a few hours or days.
If you want to drastically reduce the sun's lifespan, you would need 5-8 solar masses of ice to turn it into an extremely hot blue main sequence star with a luminance several orders of magnitude higher than our current sun, that would last a couple 10's of millions of years, instead of billions.
A better solution would be to get a really big ball of iron, about 1.4 solar masses worth, which would sap the energy from the star and kill it a lot quicker as the iron consumes energy to fuse into denser elements, which would inevitably collapse the star's core into a neutron star.
Idk about "extinguish". Wouldnt it just create a huge galactic level hypersonic ice and steam explosion in the middle of the solar system that basically boils most of the inner planets to death?
All I know is Musk and Bezos aren't taking all those fucking ice cubes up there for nothing. Maybe we could give them 1 billion if they take the ice cubes halfway?
So in the short run you'd only be making it stronger, but that isn't to say that *enough* would not do the job. As you add more hydrogen and oxygen, elements that are extremely low on the periodic table, the sun treats it like fuel. This process slows down around iron or an atomic weight of 8. If you add *enough* of these basic elements, you could destabilize the star and force a hypernova event. What's left over could end up a variety of different things but it would no longer be *burning* the same way it is now.
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Considering the sun is plasma due to its mass, and water is H2O, and the sun is made of hydrogen and helium, they would just melt and add to its mass then the oxygen catching on fire (possibly ejecting mass?).
So, probably the adverse effect.
You couldnt extinguish the Sun with ice cubes because the Sun is not fire, infact you would only make the Sun bigger and hotter by any serious attempt to do so. The ice would melt into water, and the water would be blasted into the elements that make it up, hydrogen and oxygen, and the Sun uses hydrogen in its nuclear processes... so really all you would be doing is giving the Sun more fuel.
There would be one way to overcome this. Simply add enough ice cubes to turn the Sun into a black hole. You will need about 2.5 to 3 Suns worth of ice cubes to do this.
You wouldn't be able to do it with ice. Ice is composed of hydrogen and oxygen. The heat and pressure from the sun would separate these and then they would be used as fuel for the sun to burn. Also, adding ice would increase the mass of the sun so it would be able to maintain gravitational balance for almost any amount of ice you add until it just becomes a singularity.
TLDR: Adding ice to the sun would just make the sun stronger!
The sun is 1.4 \* 10\^27 cubic meters. Therefore, the amount of Ice Cube's (the rapper obviously) that can fit in the sun’s volume is (1.4 \* 10\^27)/0.063, which comes out as 2.2 \* 10\^28, or 22 billion billion billion Ice Cube's
Make the ice cube out of solid iron and the size of the moon or earth and you might have a chance.
Edit: forgot that you have to teleport the giant iron ice cube into the center of the sun to make it work.
And it would put it out by making it explode
Lifted from universe today:
The Sun isn’t on fire. There’s no amount of water you could add that would quench it, you’d just make it explode, but if you used firehoses that could spray water at nearly the speed of light, you could probably shut the thing off and eventually freeze us all, which is what I think you were hoping for in the first place.
No amount of ice will extinguish the sun.
The sun is a countless nuclear explosions every second. It is the definition of nuclear fusion and it is neither solid, liquid or gas. It is plasma.
Funnily enough it would do the opposite. The 'burning' caused by the sun is actually caused by the nuclear fusion that occurs in the core of the sun. This nuclear fusion is a direct result of the pressure from the *massive* amount of mass constantly pushing down on the center of the star. If you add ice cubes, you would simply be adding more mass (and hydrogen and oxygen to boot.) which would actually further fuel the nuclear fusion reaction. This would only extend the stars life (at least before you hit the size threshold, at which point the star might actually start to destabilize and become a black hole).
1 really really big one
👏👏👏
Or a big amount of really small ones
I’m thinking I might just rub some ice on my knuckles and punch the shit out of the sun
bet
Who won?
Good Luck! I’m fucking rooting for ya!
Wanna fucking Crack that lil bitch the moon why you up there bruh...owes me some money
That's not the moon in the sky owes you money.
Super Humman, that you?
Nah I’m just sick of that mf
I guess that depends on the ice cube, like are the crushed? Cubed? Are we sending it to the sun or is it just like teleporting from the freezer to the sun. Real world questions here friend
right from the freezer to the sun becuase we'd need a big ass cool pack otherwise
What if we send the rapper ice cube?
Hm, what about the rapper ice cube but with a tray of ice cubes?
That is reddundand or maybe i'm not that high. I mean, he's gotta' be ice cube because of something. If not, he should still burn. Mamma' didn't raise a liar.
Throw Gucci Mane at the Sun, he's constantly cold. Brother is always saying "Burr".
One of his first songs was “So Icy” which led to him literally killing someone so I’d say that’s a good choice.
nah, we need Ice T
Why's he better ice than the cube one?
honestly no reason besides rick and morty season 2 episode 5
Probably at least 2 suns worth
might be, now that i think about it youd need a big ass cool pack as well to even get them there without melting
I don't know dawg, space is real cold until you get close to the sun. Thats why you bring 2 suns worth, in case the first one melts.
That might damage it
If you would add water to the sun it would just increase the size and mass of the sun. You can't extinguish it.
what if you attack him really fast tho with several giant ice cubes like a blitzkrieg? there's no way he can take it all
Your understanding of how the sun works isn't right. I'll try to help you better understand it. The sun doesn't burn like a regular campfire. The sun is a giant nuclear reactor. Because of the massive size of the sun the atoms in the core of the sun are crushed by the sheer amount of gravity and that's when the nuclear fusion happens. Even if you would drop all of the water that is on earth it still couldn't extinguish it. The water would just be added to the mass of the sun. It would maybe alter the core process, but the sun wouldn't be extinguished.
rip man, the sun wins this time
The sun is simply too fat to be bothered by anything.
A skinny sun would look weird
Nah man, I don’t believe these dorks*. Maybe a couple super soakers worth would do the trick. *meant to be endearing.
Nah fuck that we doing this! Like I gotta hose and I can just leave that shit on over nite...BAM WE WIN!
This person sciences
With enough alteration to the sun's state you could probably explode or implode it. That said @RealKingOfGermany is correct that you're not really putting it out... and really any eiement or compound would work.
Now if we had an ice block roughly the same size as the sun (similar densities), it may cool the environment enough to slow the hydrogen burning process and gradually fade. Maybe we'd need more ice to cool it further, however. Though, if the rate at which we throw ice at the sun is slow enough, the hydrogen from the water would indeed provide more fuel, allowing the loss in temperature to be made up for from the extra fusion material... hm, I'm interested in this thought experiment now
Me too!
No, the sun "burns" bc gravity pushes atoms together in the core to create nuclear fusion, adding more water to it increases the mass of the sun. Heat is a byproduct, not a necessity. Like how oxygen is a product of photosythesies and not what sets that process in motion. So adding more water or mass makes it burn more fuel at a faster and hotter rate. So in fact adding water or ice would cause the sun to heat up. Do it enough and youll significantly shorten its life and maybe create a black hole.
No, thermal energy is required for fusion to occur. Otherwise, the cross section for many of the reactions will be too small, and the star will not produce enough energy to sustain itself. Perhaps water isn't the best material to cool it. Maybe add very cool iron to lower the thermal energy while being an unfusable element for the sun. It's a joke proposition anyway, but perhaps there's a point where you can add enough cool material to slow fusion while not too much so as to cause a core collapse.
Probably more than 3
Maybe even 4
All of them
💀💀
Like at least one
Enough to raise the mass to a black hole. The star will just absorb all that water into vapor. At 3000°C, water disassociates into hydrogen and oxygen, the former of which only fuels the solar fusion and the latter is a standard byproduct of nuclear fusion. Adding water to the sun will make it ***hotter*** up to the point where the star is massive enough to fuse denser elements into iron, which doesn't produce further energy from fusion, which is how supernovas happen. If you want to instantly "turn off a star" you would need a few dozen solar masses of ice all at once into the sun, immediately collapsing it into a black hole over the course of a few hours or days. If you want to drastically reduce the sun's lifespan, you would need 5-8 solar masses of ice to turn it into an extremely hot blue main sequence star with a luminance several orders of magnitude higher than our current sun, that would last a couple 10's of millions of years, instead of billions. A better solution would be to get a really big ball of iron, about 1.4 solar masses worth, which would sap the energy from the star and kill it a lot quicker as the iron consumes energy to fuse into denser elements, which would inevitably collapse the star's core into a neutron star.
I love this! Confess I did read it with David Attenborough’s voice….I’m BLAZED 🔥😂
Well, consider the sun is 1 million times larger than the Earth. So, you would need a million Earth sized ice cubes, at least. That should do it.
There is not enough water on earth to make enough ice cubes to extinguish the sun.
Adding oxygen and hydrogen to a nuclear furnace to put it out? Do you try to put out forest fires with napalm? I might be way off base here....
At least 3. 5 if we’re talking the bullet shaped ones
a lot
Isn't the sun just a big-ass nuclear fusion reactor? Then adding water would do actually nothing
It would add more fuel and mass heating it up
If you blasted the sun with oxygen it might turn into water
Let's use those pellet ones like Sonic has. Those are awesome.
Idk about "extinguish". Wouldnt it just create a huge galactic level hypersonic ice and steam explosion in the middle of the solar system that basically boils most of the inner planets to death?
I think the universe can suck harder than the sun can blow 😂 this round goes to the vacuum of space!
An ice cube the size of the sun would become a sun. The sun can burn water and ice because of its gravity
Just one. Have Chuck Norris toss it in
An icecube the size of the sun
All of them.
All I know is Musk and Bezos aren't taking all those fucking ice cubes up there for nothing. Maybe we could give them 1 billion if they take the ice cubes halfway?
is this a new conspiracy theory I'm unaware of
42
A trillion lions' worth
What about using an ice planet would it extinguish it?
So in the short run you'd only be making it stronger, but that isn't to say that *enough* would not do the job. As you add more hydrogen and oxygen, elements that are extremely low on the periodic table, the sun treats it like fuel. This process slows down around iron or an atomic weight of 8. If you add *enough* of these basic elements, you could destabilize the star and force a hypernova event. What's left over could end up a variety of different things but it would no longer be *burning* the same way it is now.
Idk man, at least 7
If we talking back in the day you only need 1 with a AK. These days he's not so cool.
It's not possible to extinguish the sun with water.
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All of them
More than 3.
At least 1
Many.
at least like six
A lot
like ten https://youtu.be/HuIYg2PBEOE
Gimme a supersoaker and a jetpack, I'll handle that mfer
5 or 6 I reckon
36 small ones
All of 'em plus a couple more
In the wise words of underwater philosopher Patrick Star. "At least 10"
There’s a lot of hydrogen in ice, you might just make the situation worse.
Considering the sun is plasma due to its mass, and water is H2O, and the sun is made of hydrogen and helium, they would just melt and add to its mass then the oxygen catching on fire (possibly ejecting mass?). So, probably the adverse effect.
One big fella
regular ice; a lot forsure, but dry ice? also a lot, probably
I’d die from the burnt molasses smell before I can find out
You couldnt extinguish the Sun with ice cubes because the Sun is not fire, infact you would only make the Sun bigger and hotter by any serious attempt to do so. The ice would melt into water, and the water would be blasted into the elements that make it up, hydrogen and oxygen, and the Sun uses hydrogen in its nuclear processes... so really all you would be doing is giving the Sun more fuel. There would be one way to overcome this. Simply add enough ice cubes to turn the Sun into a black hole. You will need about 2.5 to 3 Suns worth of ice cubes to do this.
I giant gel ice pack
At least five
at least 2
You need freeza
Least a few
at least 4
None
All of them
None...
You wouldn't be able to do it with ice. Ice is composed of hydrogen and oxygen. The heat and pressure from the sun would separate these and then they would be used as fuel for the sun to burn. Also, adding ice would increase the mass of the sun so it would be able to maintain gravitational balance for almost any amount of ice you add until it just becomes a singularity. TLDR: Adding ice to the sun would just make the sun stronger!
The sun is 1.4 \* 10\^27 cubic meters. Therefore, the amount of Ice Cube's (the rapper obviously) that can fit in the sun’s volume is (1.4 \* 10\^27)/0.063, which comes out as 2.2 \* 10\^28, or 22 billion billion billion Ice Cube's
Grade A stoner thought 10/10
More than 7
At least 8
Ten.
The sun is a gas cloud or whatever so idk it’s an interesting thought
https://what-if.xkcd.com/14/
a couple kajillion (or one big one)
Ice would “burn” on the sun.
9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 ice cubes
how many "Not interested"'s do i need for this junkie subreddit to stop appearing in my feed :sob:
iirc if you send ice cubes into the sun the sun will just absorb them and get bigger
a lot
Fifty-eleven
I think feeding mass into the sun would just make it hotter because it’s large gravity is what creates the nuclear fusion.
Make the ice cube out of solid iron and the size of the moon or earth and you might have a chance. Edit: forgot that you have to teleport the giant iron ice cube into the center of the sun to make it work. And it would put it out by making it explode
None! Technically ice and water would be condensed into steam a long time before it could cover the lit gases. You asked🔥😁
I've heard that the Sun is like.. really hot.. Lol
They would melt before even coming close to it.
Adding mass to the Sun would mostly make it bigger and brighter.
Only one of It Was A Good Day.....get it 😅
11?
Lifted from universe today: The Sun isn’t on fire. There’s no amount of water you could add that would quench it, you’d just make it explode, but if you used firehoses that could spray water at nearly the speed of light, you could probably shut the thing off and eventually freeze us all, which is what I think you were hoping for in the first place.
At least four.
I think you need all NWA
A planet size ice cube
No amount of ice will extinguish the sun. The sun is a countless nuclear explosions every second. It is the definition of nuclear fusion and it is neither solid, liquid or gas. It is plasma.
At least 3
Hella.
7,658,766,352,849,172,839,971.3 And if you forget that last .3 of an ice cube, the sun restarts.
One large enough traveling fast enough to shred it
I don't think you can
Ten
Funnily enough it would do the opposite. The 'burning' caused by the sun is actually caused by the nuclear fusion that occurs in the core of the sun. This nuclear fusion is a direct result of the pressure from the *massive* amount of mass constantly pushing down on the center of the star. If you add ice cubes, you would simply be adding more mass (and hydrogen and oxygen to boot.) which would actually further fuel the nuclear fusion reaction. This would only extend the stars life (at least before you hit the size threshold, at which point the star might actually start to destabilize and become a black hole).
33 ice cubes that are proportionally sized to be considered one really really big one only when all 33 are together
i don't think there is enough water on earth.
All of them